Passage
The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
John 10:33 (WEB)
Nearby Context
John 10:31 Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.
John 10:32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”
John 10:33 The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
John 10:34 Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’Psalm 82:6
John 10:35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "jews", "answered", "stone", "good", "blasphemy", "make", and "yourself". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "jews" and "answered", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 32's "Jesus answered them I have shown you..." into verse 34's "Jesus answered them Isn t it written...", so "jews" and "answered" belong inside that flow. In John context, the local focus is the identity of Jesus, new birth, eternal life, and belief and unbelief.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "jews" and "answered" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.